Taliban Quotes

• When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Numbers, America

  "Arundhati Roy: "We May Not Need Peace in This Unjust Society; You Need People Who Are Prepared to Resist"". "Democracy Now!" Interview, www.alternet.org. March 23, 2010.

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• We're told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Gay

  "People who see her on television think she's wonderful ... and then there are the people who have worked with her" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2007.

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• If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

  Ann Coulter

  Mexican Border, Borders, Minorities

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.132, Crown Forum

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• Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

  Colin Powell

  Moving, Progress, Defeat

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Weakness, Hopelessness, Born

  "Malala Up Close: A Heroine And A Joking Teenager". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 2, 2015.

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• I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

  Hamid Karzai

  Thinking, Afghanistan

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• What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

  Tina Brown

  Girl, Interesting, Scary

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• I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

  Newt Gingrich

  Religious, Thinking, Should Have

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• The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

  David Petraeus

  Iran, Citizens, Want

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 15, 2010.

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• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Uniforms

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• Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons. Primarily, it is a nuclear power. And if, in fact, al Qaeda and Taliban, which are in Pakistan and causing a lot of tragedies and deaths in Pakistan - if they would ever somehow have real influence and control of that government, then we [world] really have a problem.

  Dan Quayle

  Real, Numbers, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.

  Ahmad Shah Massoud

  Attitude, Tolerance, Islam

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• God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Focus, Political

  "Road Map in the Back Seat?" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 27, 2003.

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• God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

  George W. Bush

  Als, Strikes, Al Qaeda

  "‘How Bush Rules’" by Sidney Blumenthal, www.nytimes.com. September 24, 2006.

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• We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Leader, Religion

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.7, Crown Forum

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• Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.

  John Yoo

  War, Rights, Decision

  "Terrorists Have No Geneva Rights" by John Yoo, www.wsj.com. May 26, 2004.

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• They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Silence, Bullets

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Humor, Thinking

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• We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, War, Cities

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.7, Crown Forum

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• This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

  George W. Bush

  War, Humor, Political

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.41, M.E. Sharpe

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• An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

  Ashley Montagu

  World, Danger, North Korea

  Ashley Montagu (1958). “Education and Human Relations”

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• I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Speak

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• I believed Afghanistan was always going to be hard. It's the fifth poorest country in the world. And when you fly over it, you realize that there's not much there. And, of course, it has the problem, too, of being on that border with Pakistan in basically an ungoverned region that has given the terrorists a staging ground. So it's a very difficult place. But I do believe that the mission there can succeed if success is defined as helping the Afghans to prevent the Taliban from being an existential threat to the Afghan government.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Believe, World

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• I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense. They [CIA] created a monster and now they are appalled by it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Powerful, Spring

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Vcr, Giants

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